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You get sick; you go to your doctor. Too bad. Because medicine isn't an industry, it's practically witchcraft. Despite the growth of big pharma, HMOs, and hospital chains, medicine remains the isolated work of individual doctors—and the system is going broke fast. So why is Andy Kessler—the man who told you outrageous stories of Wall Street analysts gone bad in Wall Street Meat and tales from inside a hedge fund in Running Money—poking around medicine for the next big wave of technology? It's because...

Stephen shares information on the primary bacteria which have become antibiotic resistant, the likely outcome of this developement, the herbs which can be used in place of standard pharmaceuticals and the place herbalists will have in the future in the treatment of epidemic disease.

Pages: 329, Edition: 1, Paperback, State Univ of New York Pr

Theophrastus von Hohenheim (14931541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of the early Reformation, and commentator on the social and religious issues of his day. This elegantly written book is the defining account of the man known as "Paracelsus the Great." Drawing on the whole range of relevant manuscript and printed sources, Charles Webster considers Paracelsus's life and works, explores his advocacy for total reform of the clerical, legal, and medical...

Relying on religious traditions that are as old as their faith itself, many devout Christians turn to prayer rather than medicine when their children fall victim to illness or injury. Faith healers claim that their practices are effective in restoring health - more effective, they say, than modern medicine. But, over the past century, hundreds of children have died after being denied the basic medical treatments furnished by physicians because of their parents' intense religious beliefs. The tragic...

* The bibliography includes material from the fields of anthropology, hospice, and palliative medicine and music therapy. * A comprehensive index. * Utilizes extended interviews with practitioners who reflect on the transformative power of music at the end of life. * Provides a creative and compelling vision of end-of-life care to physicians, nurses, medical students, chaplains, social workers, and patients facing a terminal illness along with their loved ones. * Includes moving, deeply personal...

'"The Clinician's Guide to Child Custody Evaluations, Third Edition" is written by one of the leaders in the field. it is as essential to the subject of child custody as the stethoscope is to medicine. This edition, an update of a classic, is a must-read for everyone from the novice to the expert's expert' - Leslie M. Drozd, PhD, Editor, "Journal of Child Custody". This is a practical and comprehensive guide for conducting child custody evaluations. "Clinician's Guide to Child Custody Evaluations...

Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient's own story in the healing process - Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient - Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process - Proposes a reinvention of medicine to include the indigenous healing methods that for thousands of years have drawn their effectiveness from telling and listening Modern medicine, with its high-tech and managed-care approach, has eliminated much...

Regarded as the #1 brain longevity expert, Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., was graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine and trained at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Khalsa founded the nonprofit Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation in Tucson, Arizona, and is an internationally recognized authority on the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His books include Brain Longevity, (Warner Books...

Nearly every type of cancer passes through a precancer phase, during which it cannot metastasize or invade other tissues. While medicine is not always successful in treating or curing advanced stages of cancers, recent advances in our understanding of carcinogenesis have helped us to develop strategies to prevent, diagnosis, and treat many cancers at the precancer stage. Research in this field is escalating rapidly as the evidence increasingly shows that the number of annual cancer deaths could be...

Genre: Literary Collections. Subgenre: Essays. Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard. Pages: 278. Language: English. Format: paperback. Date Published: July 31, 2005.